Celebrating a 6th birthday at school!

"It is my birthday today.  We had pizza and a chocolate cake in my classroom with my friends.  It was fun celebrating my birthday with everyone."  By Ryder

Thank you Ryder for bringing your party to school.  It was fun to have everyone wishing you a happy birthday.  Thank you to Ryder's Mum and Dad for organising the birthday party.

Ryder with his classmates eating pizza

Ryder with his birthday certificate.

Ryder's Duffy Certificate

Ryder got the Duffy Certificate this week because he has been using some interesting descriptive words in his stories.  This is one of Ryder's stories.

"When the giraffes looked around carefully for lions they were thirsty so they were going to the waterhole. The youngest giraffe's mouth didn't reach the water when he tried to put his mouth in the water to drink."

"A lion has a mane on him because it makes him look strong.  He has strong legs to run fast.  A lion does not purr.  Lions have claws and teeth that look like a vampires."

 

Para kore (Zero Waste)

As part of our Te Reo lesson this week we learnt that we have to take care of Papatuanuku and our kura so we went out into the playground and collected up rubbish.  We made sure our playground was free from litter.

Jade E, Phoenyx and Ryder on litter collection

Look at all the rubbish we collected!

Two New Duffy Books Each!

The children were very excited to be able to choose two new Duffy books to take home.  They sat and read their new books sharing them with their friends.  Thanks to The Duffy Books in Homes for such a wonderful gift.  The children certainly treasure their books.

Kamryn enjoying her books.

 

Madison, Ryder and Phoenyx showing off their new books.

Cross Country Running

Yesterday we finally had our annual cross country race.  It was rained off on Thursday so the children were ready to race.  In the year one boys race Najari came fourth and in the girls race Madison came second with Jade F fourth and Leigharna fifth but the children were all champions and kept running all the way around the muddy course.

"Yesterday we ran so fast because Mr Burt used the clappers to start our race.  We went around the field, through the gate, passed the horses and up to the finish line".  By Kohatu.

"Yesterday we had our cross country race.  We had lots of energy and I came fourth."  By Jade F

"At cross country we had a race on the field and it was muddy on top of the field.  We ran as fast as we could and we had so much fun.  All of the children sat down in a row behind a chair labelled year 1."  By Ryder

Ronald McDonald's Visit

Ronald McDonald came to Pt England to find his missing red and white, super striped sock.  On his "way to Pt England" he showed the children ways to be safe in and around cars.  We sang the "Make it Click" song about how to belt up safely in a car.  Ronald also showed the children how to cross the road safely at a crossing, to look out for sneaky driveways and not to walk near the edge of the footpath.

 The children had fun telling Ronald where to find his sock - it was on his back!

Ryder thought it was funny and wrote his story about it.

"Ronald McDonald was turning around slowly.   We saw his red and white sock and we laughed.  Ronald McDonald was looking for his sock.  We helped Ronald McDonald.  By Ryder

Madison and Ashley drew pictures of Ronald.  They liked his bright red hair.

Ashley drew Ronald with his red hair and his yellow jacket.

Madison liked Ronald's big red smile.

Health Checks

Point England School was very fortunate to have health checks for every child recently.  All the children went and learnt how to wash their hands before they had their check up.  They were weighed and measured, had their throat and teeth looked at and then their skin.  It was exciting for everyone to do it together and it gave the children lots to write about back in class.

This is Ryder's story.  "I had my throat checked.  It didn't hurt and my throat was better."

Ryder gets his throat checked.

Interesting Patterns

We were learning about patterns in maths. We learnt that you can make lots of different kinds of patterns using all sorts of equipment. We tried to think of different sorts of patterns using different shapes, colours and the number of things in the repeat.  Here are some of the interesting patterns we made.  By Ryder, Phoenyx, Daz and Najari

Phoenyx's pattern on a board

Najari made a pattern with the counters

Daz made a very interesting repeat pattern.

Ryder used some of the sorting things to make a pattern.

Coins for Nepal

We are putting coins on a picture of a temple.The coins are for the people of Nepal.  By Ryder

A Healthy Wrap.

I love eating my healthy wrap with lettuce, cheese and chicken. By Ryder

Ryder enjoying his healthy wrap.

Ryder is finding words to use in his story.

Batman comes to Assembly.

At assembly on Monday Mr Barks made a hovercraft.  Batman  went on it.  By Ryder

Making Sand Castles at the Beach

Room 16 had great fun digging and making sand castles at the beach.  Ryder, Kohatu, Kamryn, Jade and Leigharna used water to make the sand damp so that they could shape the sand into castle shapes. By Room 16

Ryder smoothing out the sand.

Kamryn, Kohatu and Ryder making sandcastles.

Jade empties the bucket while Ryder and Kamryn dig.  Leigharna gets some more water.

Maths with our iPads

We practiced using the iPad tools we learnt about this week with our maths lesson.  Jade is taking a photo of her bears on the tens frame while Ryder and Kohatu show what they are able to do.  Well done Class 16 for your great listening in getting the job done.  Class 16